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Date:      Fri, 7 Sep 2001 01:53:37 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <charon@labs.gr>
To:        Ceri <ceri@techsupport.co.uk>
Cc:        Andrew J Caines <A.J.Caines@halplant.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Good practice for /tmp
Message-ID:  <20010907015337.C2957@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20010906125816.A23046@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>; from ceri@techsupport.co.uk on Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:58:16PM %2B0100
References:  <craig@allmaui.com> <20010904221809.B57312B@usul.nersc.gov> <20010905183015.A824@hades.hell.gr> <20010906094931.B30676@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20010906051207.O55388@hal9000.servehttp.com> <20010906104359.E30676@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20010906055708.P55388@hal9000.servehttp.com> <20010906111353.C2758@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> <20010906065319.R55388@hal9000.servehttp.com> <20010906125816.A23046@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk>

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On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 12:58:16PM +0100, Ceri wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 06:53:19AM -0400, Andrew J Caines said:
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> > > Mind you, I suppose you could also run out of swap on disk as well
> > 
> > Swap is disk, unless you swap to NFS or other storage.
> 
> Ah yeah, but we were talking about having swap on an MFS /tmp.
> At least I thought we were... :)

Actually, the other way round.  Having an MFS /tmp that utilizes a
part of VM (ram+swap) to make a temp fs that will be automatically
erased at reboot.

-giorgos


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